Description
Crockpot Italian Chicken Pasta is a delightful, creamy dish that transforms your busy weeknights into a gourmet experience. This easy recipe combines tender shredded chicken and pasta in a rich marinara sauce, making it ideal for family dinners or potlucks. With minimal prep time, simply toss everything into your crockpot, let it cook, and enjoy the flavors that develop as it simmers. Perfectly paired with garlic bread or a fresh salad, this dish is sure to impress without keeping you tied to the kitchen.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 onion (chopped)
- 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1.25 pounds chicken breast tenders (raw)
- 25 oz marinara sauce
- 12 oz cream cheese
- 1 lb pasta (cooked)
- Salt and black pepper (to taste)
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 2 bay leaves
Instructions
- In a cold crockpot, combine chopped onion, minced garlic, raw chicken tenders, cream cheese, marinara sauce, salt, black pepper, Italian seasoning, and bay leaves.
- Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours; check for doneness at around 2.5 hours if your crockpot runs hot.
- Remove cooked chicken and shred it using two forks; return shredded chicken to the crockpot and stir until cream cheese melts into the sauce.
- Toss the creamy mixture with freshly cooked pasta before serving.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 3 hours
- Category: Main
- Method: Slow Cooking
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup (245g)
- Calories: 410
- Sugar: 6g
- Sodium: 800mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 44g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 26g
- Cholesterol: 80mg